Mary Everest Boole Quotes

• Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

  Mary Everest Boole

  Attitude, Teaching, Science

  Mary Everest Boole (1931). “...Collected Works...”

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• The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

  Mary Everest Boole

  Children, Real, Science

  Mary Everest Boole (1931). “...Collected Works...”

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• Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to rest had no tendency to prove them. But he had been endeavouring to give a more active and positive help than this to the cause of what he deemed pure religion.

  Mary Everest Boole

  Husband, Mean, Science

  "Mary Everest Boole, Collected Works" by Mary Everest Boole, edited by ‎Eleanor Meredith Cobham, (p. 40), 1931.

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